Financial PostWhile bricks and mortar retailers remain justifiably panicked about losing sales to digital-only ecommerce players like Amazon, it still comes as a surprise to learn that online sales account for just two per cent of Canadian retail activity.READ MORE

Financial PostCanada has long been an afterthought for the global aviation market, an out-of-the-way destination with taxes and fees so high that some five million Canadians a year trek across the border to fly out of cheaper U.S. airports.
But Air Canada and the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) are determined to flip that view on its head by turning Toronto's Pearson International Airport into a mega-hub on the scale of Amsterdam's Schiphol, Singapore's Changi or Dubai International Airport.READ MORE

Montreal GazetteFrédéric Mamarbachi, founder of m0851, a design house specializing in handcrafted leather bags, coats and outerwear, is a modest man who prefers that his brand take centre stage.READ MORE

Toronto StarDoes it make sense to buy travel insurance and what does it cover?
It can compensate for flight delays, cancellations and missed connections that force travellers to pay for hotel stays, meals, transit from the airport and back, and recoup losses when luggage or valuables go missing.READ MORE

FashionistaSydney, Australia-based entrepreneur Lana Hopkins can pinpoint the moment she had the idea for her revolutionary customizable handbag line, Mon Purse: An unsuccessful search for a handbag at the Bondi Beach Westfield mall led to an hour creating a plush toy at the Build-a-Bear workshop. While sitting in her car afterward, she realized those two activities were not mutually exclusive. "There's something in this. I had my come-to-Jesus moment all of a sudden," Hopkins said.READ MORE

New York TimesAfter years of department store footwear expansion, with Harrods in London opening a 42,000-square-foot shoe floor, Macy's in New York raising that to 63,000, and the Level Shoe District in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to 96,000, their focus has shifted somewhat further up the body.
Or so it seemed last week when the London emporium Selfridges unveiled the first phase of what it says will be the world's largest handbag hall.READ MORE

GQCrocodile and alligator are not the easiest leathers to pull off. They're not even easy to obtain in the first place  if there's an international secret handshake for private jet owners, it probably involves crocodile gloves. And then there's the brilliant sheen, which catches the light, not to mention the eye, better than any other leather. READ MORE